A Quote by James Naismith

Basketball is a pure invention.

James Naismith

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Basketball Invention Pure

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James Naismith
Canadian - Inventor
November 6, 1861 - November 28, 1939

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.

James Naismith

The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.

Janet Malcolm

Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.

Alexander McCall Smith

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'

James Naismith

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

Diodorus Siculus

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

Alfred North Whitehead

But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.

Lord Byron

Basketball is a business. Pure and simple. If you want to have fun, go to the YMCA.

Pat Riley

In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.

Paul Watzlawick

I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.

Ethan Canin

The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than "The Metamorphosis".

Jonathan Franzen

From a pure basketball standpoint, it's hard to say you wouldn't want Kawhi Leonard on your team.

Dwane Casey

...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion.

Francis Bacon

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.